/scg/edg/scedg/ Elite Star:Dangerous Citizen general #154

First for SPACE LEGS WHEN

o-ok

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mfw I just want to play SQ42

I"m not really interested in the PU tell groups are reworked so 3.2.

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first for 3.0 being a skeleton of what it was supposed to be and that mining and all other interestning stuff are now postponed to at least next year.

FUCK!

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>>174234442
3.0 includes almost everything it was supposed to besides the planets.

Mining may still be in 3.0 we'll know for sure in a few weeks or less.

>>174233146
So I just spent like 8 hours yesterday on stuff that went up in flames with a botched landing at an astroid. I owe the bank a few 100 000s, my system where I grinded rep plummeted to newtral and I fucked up a 6 mil mission (which is a decent penny for me).

I need a new start, is there any systems that are better at grinding rep and money? My friends play on a fed system, but I want to go with Empire, and also try the powerplay thungy, and side with that blue haired chick. I remember hearing about Wu Guinagi, but I take it it isnt optimal for open play.

Daily reminder: hexagons = futuristic, is generic sci-fi trash.

>>174234691
>Mining may still be in 3.0

hot meme

>>174234842

You're adorable.

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Senpai I currently have the UEE Exploration pack with Terrapin+Carrack+Dfly.

God damn Im about to make a huge mistake to melt it and buyback pic related. Talk me out of it.

How rare is this piece of sexy shit gonna be you think? Its made by Esperia, so It will be more rare than Xian or Jewman ships.

God damn I want to bamboozle dads with its maglev while I drift circles around their shit on the planet. God damn I want to ferry people around with that pussymagnet design.

On the other hand, I will sacrifice shittons of gameplay by givin up on Terrapin+Carrack.

Fuck man fuck I am weak.

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>>174234691
NPC's with functioning Ai and most of the other base but not final systems should be in by 3.2. The two things that worry me are will the new netcode be good enough and how fast can be they pump out planets and content once the pipelines are complete.

>>174234942
It's an unkown at this point since Senior devs had said it will be in and Disco said the schedule is not complete. The 300i rework is not even in the schedule.

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*blocks your path*

>>174235116
>Senior devs

Dev, plural. One time. In conflict with everything else.

>Disco said the schedule is not complete
Just 3.1+

>The 300i rework is not even in the schedule.

Originfags thinking thats a priority, kek

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>>174235136

>>174233327

Hopefully never.

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>>174234842
>Star Citizen
>generic sci-fi trash
Whoa, really?

If anything, SC barely qualifies to be generic because it doesn't have any ideas of its own. Everything in SC was stolen ("inspired by" in shillspeak) from every single sci-fi franchise ever made.
>>174235010
>dropship
Literally NO ONE will ever use dedicated dropships to ferry people around. First off, this is not Planetside 2, SC won't support such scale. Second, why use dropship when you can just land a bigger ship on the planet that won't be shot down as easily?

>>174235398
>Second, why use dropship when you can just land a bigger ship on the planet that won't be shot down as easily?

Yeah I don't get why the US doesn't exclusively build M1 Abrams

fuck Bradleys
fuck HMMWV
fuck M113s

Just build tanks like Merkervas for everything!

>>174235398
>>174235520

Senpai, Im seriously thinkin about melting carrack+terrapin package for this shit. If its gonna be rare as fuck similar to other shitty Esperia ships, and hard to get, goddamn I will be turning some serious dadheads with it.

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>>174235520

>m113s
>not obsolete

>>174235010
Ultra sexy looking, rare, stealth, hover/fly humvee with gangbang capacity

VS

Durable cheap scanner turtle + Top of the line semi-capital exploration ship with snub and rover and medbay.

>>174235520
>compares SC to real world
Daddy, go to work.
>fuck Bradleys
Exactly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

>>174235383
Why? If you noticed you can use HoloMe while your ship is moving and you can even control it and see shit trough windows. I was surprised this shitty engine can do it.
Walking around ships, stations( granted they are detailed), maybe even alien ruins, disabled ships would be pretty dope.

>>174235792
>he actually believes pentagon wars

HAAH WAAW

Just trying to dumb it down to your level amigo

not going to be using an Idris for troop landing

>>174235520

>comparing real life with its very real logistics and material requirements for supporting and maintaining equipment to a fucking video game

Are you the autistic missile launcher guy? Plaxinov? How does it feel to be on both spectrums at the same time?

>>174235978
What you just described - having your choices limited by resources and personnel - is exactly what SC is aiming for

Sorry bud, but you're not going to be flying around in your solo capital anytime soon.

>>174235843

Because it's going to be a shit gimmick feature that adds nothing of substance at all to the game. HoloMe was just as bad. It adds some immersion, sure, but ultimately HoloMe is not going to make you want to actually pop the game up and play it. Also please don't kid yourself, there is no way that FD will do anything beyond making you walk around in only your cockpit and select copy-paste station rooms.

I'm really just sick of FD listening to idiots raving on the forums and then pumping out some half-baked "feature" and calling it a day. Before spacelegs, multicrew was hailed as the next big thing. People thought it'd be like SC, where you'd have a lot of people in an Annie or Cutter or something and you'd man different stations. Instead it's just a piece of shit that barely works without connection errors and is fun for maybe an hour or two, and isn't even encouraged by the game due to moronic payout and rank nerfs.

What is spacelegs going to be? Walk around and take pretty screenshots from your Asp cockpit? Okay? What about Powerplay, when is more depth going to be added to it? When is the BGS going to be more fleshed out to where it doesn't take reading a 500-page forum post to understand how it works? When will Engineers be more than a scavenger hunt casino game that throws game balance out of a window? Will there ever be more exploration gameplay beyond jump honk repeat? Does FD even remember CQC exists? I could go on and on but my point is that people think that spacelegs is going to save the game and bring it back from mediocrity but don't take into account FD's prior record of feature releases. It's going to be a stupid gimmick that doesn't work on release, takes 3 months to fix, and is then tossed to the wayside so they can work on the next bullshit to attract more buyers.

>>174236074

>having your choices limited by resources and personnel - is exactly what SC is aiming for

I think your choices are more limited from not having a game yet.

>Sorry bud, but you're not going to be flying around in your solo capital anytime soon.

Not an argument.

>>174235917
>not going to be using an Idris for troop landing
That's exactly what people who have the numbers for combat drops will be doing. Troop carriers IRL are used because they're cheap and easy to replace. In SC large corps won't have money issues, especially when 50% of whales in them have LTI caps they can easily replace.

>>174236319
>easyly replace

good luck with insurance respawn timer for a capital ship

>>174236409
When you have 50 in your corp, you don't care. They're like Titans in EVE. Killing one was an achievement when there was 5 in the whole game, but once every large corp got one, they became an extra position on killfeed.

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When will the game not run like shit?
When will we be able to land on planets?
When will basebuilding be implemented?

>>174236752
Scg is no sandbox like Eve tho, so there wontmbe shittons of multiboxing moonmining cancer to churn the capital ship production chain.

>>174236798

When animeposters stay in their containment board.

>>174236823
Yes, SC is a game where you can get a ship instantly for real money bypassing all the extra waiting. Really makes you think.

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>>174236798
PU will not run like shit between 3.0 to 3.1

You'll be able to land on moons in 3.0

Homesteading may be awhile.

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>>174236798
>When will the game not run like shit?
3.0 "stretch goal", and it's supposed to be a fix only on paper, no one knows if it will actually fix the problem.
>When will we be able to land on planets?
Empty bland moons in 3.0, proper landing zones later.
>When will basebuilding be implemented?
Just play Space Engineers or something.

>>174237218
>3.0 "stretch goal", and it's supposed to be a fix only on paper, no one knows if it will actually fix the problem.

Fuck you talking about

>>174234815
Don't be such a pussy anything can be done in Open. And everything SHOULD be done in Open.

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>>174237390
He's talking about the Network culling which is just part of the new netcode. It's scheduled to be done by just a few days of the estimated release of 3.0 so if it's not done by then it will be in 3.1.

>>174237592
Yeah, and its not a stretch goal.

>>174237592
Which is neither a stretch goal nor an unknown fix. People get smooth as shit framerates in "singleplayer"

2.4 when?
My bet late 2017/early 2018

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>>174237642
>>174237737
Retards.

>>174237778
>Late 2017
You're pushing it. My guess is mid 2018 at the earliest. I like it to actually be a lot later so they can go fix all their half assed mechanics

What if the reason mining isn't on the schedule is because it's already done?

>>174237883
Whole year for 1(ONE) update?

>>174235398
>Everything in SC was stolen ("inspired by" in shillspeak) from every single sci-fi franchise ever made.
I wish. I'd gladly have a game inspired by Babylon 5, the one show that CIG hates.

>>174235136
*refund my pixelbucks*
your move

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>>174237845
Do they mean stretch goal for this update?

Because it isn't a funding stretch goal, which is the only place I've heard the term, ever.

>>174238079
Stretch Goal for this update it's actually the proper term in agile development.

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>>174238079
Maybe you shouldn't open your mouth if you're such a newfag, then? Go back to Autism Spectrum.

>>174238137
>agile development.
Who /shill/ here?

>>174238079
Stretch goal for the sprint. If the sprint goes will with no trouble, they will get the Bind/Unbind in this update, otherwise it gets bumped to the next version.

>>174238140
FUEEKJN BLEK PEOPLE

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If you have hexagon shaped missiles, you could stack them in such a way that they aren't inefficient. However, having hexagons for the sake of generic sci-fi is pretty poor design.

>>174235520
But it isn't remotely the same at all, you fucking muffin

>>174238137
>Stretch goals in Agile (Scrum) development allow the team to plan for a few more tasks in addition to their committed work during the sprint

>Netcode rework is additional work for 3.0, not absolutely fucking core to it

REALLY GETS YOU HMMING

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>>174238343
3.0 will include the new netcode but final version of the netcode won't be done tell maby a year from which will include server meshing.

>>174238449
They didn't say the entire new netcode.

They've specifically put ONE ELEMENT of the new network as a "maybe it'll be in, maybe not" part of 3.0, when its basically the only reason people had hope for the patch in the first place

>>174238449
Let me translate your post:

>the new netcode is in 3.0
>3.0 won't have the new netcode

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Whats the point of having generals when the game doesn't come out until at least 2021?

Or do you just like to constantly refresh your suffering.

>>174238031
Orion.

>>174234815
I've only played open so far, but haven't really met any, but I would guess the more popular places are a bit more swarmed.

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>tfw SC is like a little baby compared to Babylon 5
>tfw no interesting characters or banter
>tfw no super-powerful alien races

>>174238813
Vanduul ships were heavily "inspired by" Shadows, imo.

>>174239080
Yeah B5 really was the first to do crescent moon shaped ships

that NASA news about Enceladus was pretty interesting. Icy moons are cool and unique. Star Citizen haters btfo yet again

>>174239440
>actual space news
Most of us try to ignore the fact that space tourism will be real before these games are finished.

>>174240001
Existed since 2001, so that is very true

I've been playing Elite Dangerous since the beta, where I bought it with a lifetime expansion pass. It might have seemed a lot to me at the time, but it's proved phenomenal value for money since.

Even if you have to buy the expansions, that amounts to only about £20 or £30 every year or two. I do choose to purchase stuff from the store though to support future development of the game.

Now compare this to one of the games some friends play, Star Wars Battlefront. This game was released about a year and half ago, at a premium price. Since then, there have been a couple of expansions at about £40 a pop.

NOW they've just announced, that only two years after the game's initial release, they're releasing Star Wars Battlefront 2, with a pre-order price of a whopping £70!!

What will this be, and how can they change it? It's very likely there's not that much they can do, so it'll effectively just be new maps on top of the current game (or at least it's likely this is what it will feel like).

As a result, one of my friends has already decided that it's not worth buying, and he'll move onto another game instead.

With Frontier, we don't just get cheap expansions, but we get regular FREE updates to those expansions. I for one am extremely happy that Elite Dangerous is in the hands of a small, independent games company :)

>>174240209
Copy pasting E:D forum posts isn't cool dude

>>174240209
woah
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/344657-If-you-think-that-Elite-Dangerous-is-poor-value-for-money
really makes you think

>>174240209
I've had fantastic value for money from Elite. I've spent £80 so far and had over 2000hours gametime. < £0.04/hr is pretty good.

>>174240918
2000 hours spent on 20 hours of actual game is an impressive display of waste

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>>174239440
>cool and unique
In real world, maybe, but the whole thing about fiction is that you can go far far beyond that.
And Croberts already did once.

Fuck realism, give me back space storms in Badlands and green and purple dual stars of Kusari space.

>>174234842
>>174238318
You have Derek Smart-level autism.

>>174241658
You're the person who keeps bullying someone who posts things you don't like.

>>174241901

One post equals bullying now?

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Anyone else is making a nigga pirate in 3.0 and hunting autists exploring moons on their Ursas and Dragonflies?

>>174243169
No I'm making a man instead.

>>174243169
No i'll be making a brown lady, just the way you like it autismo

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Imagine being this guy.

>>174243169
Sorry I'll be playing the superior game, Elite Dangerous, you may have heard of it.

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>>174243381
>brown lady
Who doesn't like brown ladies?

Weren't female animations and stuff planned after 3.0, though?

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>>174243442
Where can I subscribe?

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>>174243480
>playing
>ED
Who are you trying to fool?

>>174234691
Were planets actually promised for 3.0? Obviously the planet tech was, but were we promised MicroTech, Hurston, and ArcCorp for 3.0?

I vaguely remember it, and it was definitely heavily implied, but looking back the 3.x roadmap just lists 3.0 as "The Stanton System" with the other 3.x updates having "more solar system locations".

I'm pissed that the whole Staton system isn't gonna be in 3.0, and especially that we're only getting moons, and now I'm even more pissed because I feel like they misled everyone without actually lying to hype up 3.0 when they never intended to have the entire Stanton system in 3.0 in the first place.

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>>174243694
>just lists 3.0 as "The Stanton System"

>>174234691
Honestly i dont see why people are hyped up for mining.
At most its going to be either wow style "hold m1 to mine node" shit or just some minecraft hokey voxel deletion that fills cargo units with ore.
And at most you will just be able to sell it for credits i guess.

They're definitely not going to have anything close to the concept they presented for mining for a long time.

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>>174243480

>>174243861
You can fly around and look at them, they never said you can land :^^^)

>>174243862
>At most its going to be either wow style "hold m1 to mine node" shit or just some minecraft hokey voxel deletion that fills cargo units with ore.

thats precisely what they've said its not going to be.

I don't think that Chris' autism would allow such a thing to exist

>>174243694
3.0 was never going to have the entire Stanton system but it was supposed to have Microtecfh, Hurston, and Arcorp. It seems like every time CIG outsources something it comes to bite them in the ass hard.

I don't think they were lying just optimistic.

>>174243694
>I feel like they misled everyone without actually lying to hype up 3.0
They've been doing that since at least the middle of last year.

>>174243537
>female animations
Does this include pinning guys down and riding them, harvesting them for their seed?

>>174243862
Because people wanted to see promised features implemented.

>>174244090
>tfw sc will never cater to the waifu / degenerate autists

good feel

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>>174244090
I hope so!
>mfw female futa pirate corp

>>174244093
This.

I don't know why they promised us mining for 3.0 when it could only bite them in the ass. No one was upset that we wouldn't see any form of mining until 3.1. If they wanted mining in 3.0, they should have just surprised us.

>>174243480
I mean, its at least released. And definitely better than the tech demo currently is.

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>>174244262
>he thinks game needs to support that for waifufags to thrive
Let me guess, SC is your first online game?

>>174244472
Not at all, but SC won't have Blood Elves or Miqo'te

or low enough graphics requirements for all the poorfag NEET RPers to play :^)

>>174243960
>thats precisely what they've said its not going to be.
It will not be what the concept showcase for mining showed for a long time, they have to get the initial placeholder mechanics working first.

>>174244093
I just sincerely hope people are not expecting to laser cut out chunks of ore and use tractor beams to feed them into a chute.

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>>174235398
>Literally NO ONE will ever use dedicated dropships to ferry people around. First off, this is not Planetside 2, SC won't support such scale. Second, why use dropship when you can just land a bigger ship on the planet that won't be shot down as easily?

Except for SC scale your logic is puzzling, why would you even think that?
- dropship are meant to ferry people around, that's like saying V-22 Osprey isn't used to ferry soldiers
- smaller = speedier
- you can't land a big ship everywhere, I'm looking at the candidate here for 10-16 men, you ain't going to land a Carrack or a Polaris everywhere and with Capital ship you'll likely carry the shuttle (Argo or Vanguard)

Explain yourself

>>174244609
>It will not be what the concept showcase for mining showed for a long time, they have to get the initial placeholder mechanics working first.

If that were true it'd be in the game already, or certainly in 3.0

>>174244686
Also CIG said they're concepting mechanics that would prevent you from storing people clown car style in whatever you want.

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>>174243169
>tfw a black man is depicted stealing a bike and shooting up the locals in the 3.0 demo
When will Sandi's rampant racism catch up to her?

>>174244606
We have bird fuccbois Tevarin, though. That's already one large part of fanbase covered. Right, Plax?

>>174244858
Wrong vedlet for birds, newfag

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>>174244686
STOP POSTING THIS SHIP!!

I dont need it buy I want to buyback it.

holy fuck why did i listen to you sperglords

i bought an autodock and its the greatest thing ever, now i can come here and shitpost while my ship lands itself playing goddamn waltzes

>>174245367

Hi, Plax.

>>174245571
KWA pls

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>>174244826
Already did.

Is there any meta weapons in elite now or? bored of trading and want to bounty hunt in vulture.

>>174245650

I guess you haven't mastered landing your Cutter yet?

>>174245973
I don't "play" E:D, so yeah you're right

>>174236319 >>174236752
Nerfing capital ship number is easy as fuck, the economy is going to be 90% npc and you aren't going to control the shipyard

>>174237001
and that's just shitposting about an alpha feature. Once the game is out and everybody have several ships, CiG can make you wait forever for your replacement ship, so that next time you don't play like a CoD kids

>>174238573
>Or do you just like to constantly refresh your suffering.
yes

>>174238813
>>tfw no super-powerful alien races
If they have those in game, they will hide them. the game Freelancer had superpowerful alien parasite, you can bet CR will do it again.

>>174240918
see >>174241327
That's like saying No Man's Sky actually have 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planet worth of content.

>>174243862 >>174244609
It will be easy for SC to have mining as fun as other game, if not more because its developer isn't constrained by editor schedule or money constraint
But don't expect much for ALPHA 3.0, most of the fun will be in finding, reaching and surviving some planets condition

How come there is no Holo-Dad thread on the forums?

>>174246007

You just false-flag shitpost about it to justify your previous autistic outbursts? Good to know.

How's Vancouver this time of year, anyway?

>>174246468
Hillary lost, get over it

>>174244756
indeed such mechanic will be important or I can already imagine players carrying 20 snub fighter inside an Idris

>>174245650
>>174245973
>>174246007
>>174246468
>>174246553
love it when my shitposting triggers some other pre-existing bullshit

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>>174246553
YOU GOD DAMN RIGHT SON

>>174246342
what the fuck are with your backlinks buddy

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>>174246553
>implying

But please answer me: Are you also the hexagonical shitposter?

>>174246757
Of course not, that guy is very artistic

Fill me in on the hexagon pentagon meme reddit.

I'll need to research it for when my slave enters my rocket turret Harbinger in August.

>>174247082
Those damn hexagons...

>>174247082
Some sperg complained at length about the fact some of the rocket pods are hexagonal in shape / aren't all boxes

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>>174247082
>he owns a Vanguard
I feel bad for you.

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>>174247082

>>174247346
New Vanguard is an objective improvement, lets be honest here all cards on the table man to xhe

>>174247346
>He doesnt have a railgun
>He doesnt have a better hornet
>He doesnt have the THICKEST combat ship hull

L I T E R A L L Y 3 S H I P S

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>>174244307

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the polaris is presently slated to rank among the highest firepower ships in the game and various aspects of its design forego utility in the name of killing potential. a magazine of 28 maximum-size torpedoes will likely be capable of (if necessary) ablating to grievous extent any known structure or ship if given opportunity for repeated runs and assumed depletion of munition stocks

factors to consider include its manufacturer, rsi, which creates bricks and has serious lineage in other vessels such as the bengal. a primary concern will likely prove to be the economical and meaningful expenditure of torpedoes as they are liable to simply be shot out if left unattended to a dense screen, miss outright, or be intercepted by some means. (a ship of lesser value may well be expected in some form of engagement one day to take one for the team and position the tip into his face to detonate it then and there, presuming the torp isn't smart enough to not care and careen through them) atop this is the very likely relatively extreme expense in deploying such munitions and the costs associated with keeping them stocked with these primary intended forms of damage dealing.

the vessel also includes a relatively large hangar bar that occupies much of the ship, ostensibly capable of holding a couple of smaller hulls at once or something larger and more specialized. what comes to mind immediately is inclusion of a small duo fighter wing to help screen in the craft as it foes about its missions and ward off any aggressors (gladiuses perhaps) or a functional living-EMP mine in the form of an avenger warlock (the ecm hornet may prove analogous in some ways). the possible slaving of a terrapin's advanced sensors to the ship also may prove to be a possibility and enable a corvette of this nature to diversify exactly how and when it conducts itself

discuss the best ship

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>>174244826

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>>174248361
>flies like ass
>literally 50% engine hitbox
>completely loses its shit when one of the engines falls off instead of the promised redundancy
>weapon selection limited by arbitrary nose guns
>retaliator part copypasta
>looks like a whale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhiaGAnOalA

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DID SOMEBODY SAY HEXAGONS? BOY DO I LOVE HEXAGONS!

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>>174247346

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>>174248760
>>174249043
>>174249252
What?

>>174246375
Most of them haven't made an avatar yet because they haven't had an opportunity to have their monthly gaming session.

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>>174249043

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>>174249252

>>174249395
oops wrong post

>>174249395
>>174249349
>>174249252
>>174249043
>>174248760

9Gag normies get the fuck out

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>>174249532

>>174235010
just buy a cutlass and do everything and more, better than this for not-$270

>>174250058
Different ships for different things.

Cutlass certainly won't do troop transport / hotdrop "better" than a dedicated ship, but its way more multirole.

>>174249681
dang fem todd is kind of a milf

>>174248862
Now that's a sexy bridge. I wish E:D had bigger shit like this to fly. The conda, corvette, and cutter are big but they don't look or feel as big as your pic. Probably an FOV issue.

>>174246375
you mean like this
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/332708-Show-us-your-commander!!

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>Corrack 2018
Remember when they were "actively working on it" last year?

>>174250831
Looks like a tranny

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>>174248862
Are you going to post this in every thread now? Also, the hangar really isn't as big as you make it out to be. The biggest thing they want you to be able to carry is a Sabre and they already mentioned not being able to Qdrive if you load more/bigger things than intended into your hangar (one of the Endeavor QAs).

>>174250939
Probably because the pilot's perspective is far forward on the bridge and there are limitations to how far the game lets you turn the camera.

The FDL's cockpit feels larger because the pilot's station is further back and you can see some other crew stations down in front of you.

>>174251336
Why is there a bunch of fucking fog inside?

>>174237218
>Empty bland moons in 3.0, proper landing zones later.
>"later"
Just like ED then. :)

>>174251525
Immersion and fidelity.

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>>174251148
>polaris 2022

can't wait

>>174251336
yeah that's the plan this thread has a few of the hulls floating aboot anyways. restrictions applying to hangar usage don't concern me all too much and it comes across as perhaps a disproportionately implemented utility element. eager to see where it's taken design-wise and i think the ship is due for significant sculpting in its final purpose

javelin a cute

>>174251525
That's the smoke and mirrors.

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>>174251682

>>174251451
That's actually a good point. Now that you mention it, almost all of the "big" ED ships have their pilot seat far forward.

>>174250157
the value of a carrack and the other ships he was going to melt for this outweight this things value so hard it's not even an option

not to mention the ship involves gameplay and physics engine related mechanics that will probably never, ever make it into the game. just seems like a no brainer. I understand the prices for hangar queens like the vanduul ships, but those are dickwaving solo fighters, not ships you buy purely for their unique functionality in a fleet combat situation. something tells me insurance on esperia ships is going to be a bitch and a half given theyre all basically made-on-request proprietary parts alien repros

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>>174248361
>tfw 1v3ing pirate swarm vanguards who can't outmaneuver my aurora LN

>>174252615
>Bragging out AI so complex they can't handle you at all if you're flying at slow speeds

>>174252824
mad cuz bad

>>174253375
>You're only saying x is easy because you're bad at x

amerilard critical thinking skills leave something to be desired

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>>174252615
>H-he's too slow!

>>174250058
Cutlass looks like a trashcan when compared with a Prowler.

DO YOU EVEN SEXY?

>>174253460
t. vanguard owner considering melting for 4 aurora LNs

>>174253750
The Cutlass, much like real women, stomps on your 2D fantasy shit NERD

>>174253750
maybe you can be in this argument when your ship is not a .jpg and they've put a full year into rewriting the physics engine to accommodate a single ultra niche, ultra exclusive limited time offer ship that like 30 people were dumb enough to spend $270 on

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>>174254109
>$270
Anon...

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>remember how years ago we were bitching about Cutlass
>how Drake gets literally shat on when Aegis gets F42 treatment
>mfw Drake now
>mfw Vanguard and Sabre get PAULED with no plans for rework

>>174254258
None of these will come out before 2019 lol

>>174254258
hmm... well ok that is alot more than i remember.

and god damn does it reinforce any argument against owning one. that's my total spent on SC, but you'd have to drug me up and so some really fucked up psychological shit to me over the course of a few weeks to make me spend $425 on such a low value, singular role ship

if im trying to go to a planet on the other side of a binary system (350,000Ls), is there a faster way than setting supercruise and taking a nap?

>>174255047
All the alien ships are hilariously overpriced, which is why I'm wondering what they're doing with the new Banu thing that's gonna cost $185.
The Vanduul Blade is just a $250 Gladius, the Scythe and Glaive are $300 and $350 jokes. The Xi'an scout is just a mess.

>>174256009
What are you, some kind of lazy millenial?

>>174256141
>not wanting to sit around doing nothing
>lazy
???

>>174256009

No. Dads would throw a hissy fit.

>>174256279
ugh. why cant I at least hyperspace to the other star?

gross

>>174256186
Kids and their instant gratification...

>>174256186
>>174256404
You need to learn about the Dads.

>>174256727
We need a Dad Acceptance Stages chart.

Somebody explain the dad meme, is it just middle aged players who don't have a lot of actual time to play the game who are influencing shit?

Chaps, I don't understand the Spring sale.

It says that the mini-ship package should be $160, and lists the dragonfly at $30. However, when I go to buy the dragonfly it's $42. If I then go back to the store page, the prices have gone up accordingly, and the mini-ship pack is $192.

Is this just pre/post-tax pricing? I don't want to pay $42 for the dragonfly, but at $30 I'll take it.

>>174257039
VAT.

Why can't I buy a module from another station, put it in storage and have it delivered to my location?

>>174256009
>>174256404
The common, casual, utter indifference to roleplayers makes me ill. And I use the term "roleplayers" loosely, just people who are playing a character in a game, instead of continuously thinking of themselves as a person operating a computer IRL.

>>174256097
banu ships are actual banu manufactured from what i gather. I think they are compatible with human interface and thusly don't need to be massively overhauled and redesigned by esperia for human use. also theyre the space jews so i'm sure they're glad to make a profit selling their ships to trade partners. also I believe they almost exclusively use the merchantman for trade and military purposes, so whatever else we get will probably be a smaller commercial/military combo

>>174256997
it's largely a strawman at this point, but there is a large number of them and they still wield sizable influence

not as much as they used to since NMS though, the forums seem noticeably more critical

>>174257117
Because in the year 3303, online markets are outlawed for the crimes against the grind.

>>174257410
Then tell me: lore-wise, why can I use Hyperspace travel to go to either star in the system, and supercruise from there?

>>174257410
The long unecessarily drawn out supercruise sequences in E:D do nothing but bring you out of it than immerse you.

It is in there PURELY to pad the game, because if travel times were instant or near instant, people would realize it is almost entirely travelling, with small sprinkles of copy paste content at either end.

>>174257850
Something about ships navigating to the highest mass object in the system. It's bullshit anyway.

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Any new meme ways of getting money in elite dangerous yet?

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM0Gcl7iUM8
>2012

heh

>>174258075
Quince passengers

>>174258075
Ironically, passenger missions in Quince are really easy to stack and flip. Need a ship with lots of compartments.

>>174257850
You're responding to Dad pasta. There is no good reason why you can't. Not even from a lore perspective. You just can't, and that's good enough to be holy dogma for the Dads. Suggesting change is sacrilege.

>>174256997
Dad is term used to define generally older family man dads coping with their mid life crisis by spending thousands of dollars and hours on these games in the same way they would go out and suddenly buy a harley davidson and a leather jacket

they are vocal about the games they play and the more time spent performing menial labor, the happier they are. theyre coping with real life jobs by spending the other half of their day doing a virtual job.

probably most of the people you'll see solo-crewing the larger more expensive ships doing menial cargo tasks day in and day out, completely immersed in the space trucker fantasy

>>174258132
Should we give him some more money so that he can fix his teeth?

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I wonder if the passenger missions work at the other remote systems. Has anyone tried sightseeing from 17D?

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How do you call this phenomenon?

>>174258574
Escapism.

I just recently started to play, this powerplay thing, is it really complicated, and should I get into it?

>>174257105
In that case, is any of it really discounted? It just seems to be the usual price, including the starter packages?

>>174258647
What makes you think anything would be discounted?
The starter packs are like 5 bucks cheaper though.

I backed this game back in 2014. Gave them around $1000. Is this playable now?

>>174258645
It's really boring and you should pledge just for one of the powerplay modules because it takes a month to get one, Prismatic shields/Pack Hounds/APAs are all pretty good.

>>174258574
>How

What not how you illiterate shiathead.

>>174258647
"Sales" aren't periods of discounts.

They're periods where you're actually able to buy certain ships.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFe8EDC_J24
Your favourite show of the week is back!

>>174258783
The disparity between the initially shown prices and the prices it then switches to.

Could you tell me the list price for the starter package you see? I'm seeing $48 - which I didn't think was discounted?

>>174258859
No I wouldn't say Elite is very playable

>>174259031
What many dollars did you spend on drawn SC ships you can't fly yet?

>>174259273
I'm triggered by terrible grammar not by scam jpegs you shitposting simpleton

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>>174259085
Another week another trap.

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>>174259085

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>a week after 2.3 release
>robbit frontpage is a desert of asp in front of a poorly textured sphere shitposts
>it's like multicrew didn't happen
actually forces you to contemplate innit?

How do I get past cadet rank in the federation, it says 100% like theres no where else to go but I have to rank up two more times just to get to earth... wtf

I'm tired of waiting, do they refund?

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>>174259085
OHHHH SHIT XAVIER RENEGADE ANGEL CAMEO IN STAR CITIZEN
WOOOOHOOOOO

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>>174256902
Meanwhile you have this

>>174257850
Remind me how some CiG developer explained that they favored the "one shop per planet/system" with game-balanced price rather than 1000 shops with near-random price.

>>174261184
Context? What ep?

>>174261305
>>174259085

>>174261295
>Remind me how some CiG developer explained that they favored the "one shop per planet/system" with game-balanced price rather than 1000 shops with near-random price.

wat

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>>174259085
WHAT THE FUCK am I looking at. Had to turn it off after 2 seconds. Jesus Christ. Kill that thing. Whatever it is.

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>all those fags overreacting over some tranny after
kheetah the cheetah

>>174262424
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

>>174261459
That was about the idea of procedurally generated city.
Each landing zone have one building of whatever type of shopping you expect to do rather than having a proc gen giant city with 100 similar shops
And it stood for planet as well, the only given reason for you to travel to another shop situated in the system is if said shop have different rules that allow you to get another type of weapon.

That's what I remember at least, it was a Town's hall

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now this is pod racing

So I crashed my ship, and had to take up a loan of 200k to not lose my ship, where do I pay that back? Can't find anything on contracts in the spaceport.

>>174257850
Your trajectory in hyperspace is created by a conduit that forms between you and the heaviest mass at your destination, snapping you towards it like an elastic band. You also have to jump with enough power to clear your current system to enter hyperspace in the first place so there's no way to jump to a nearby smaller mass without overshooting it entirely. Basically you need to be able to jump far enough for your current system to no longer be the major gravitational influence on you before you'll punch through dimensions into hyperspace. Nearby stars that are not your origin or destination also influence you, so you'll find that you can successfully jump smaller distances when the local star density is high (eg: stars near the core are sometimes not very far away from each other at all before they're considered different systems).

>>174263197
It's automatically paid back at a rate of 10% of your earnings until paid. You can't pay it off early.

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TOO MUCH POD RACING

>>174263516
Ah, I see. Thanks.

>>174260169
Eventually you'll get offered a special promotion mission. They used to appear immediately when you dinged 100%. Then it bugged up a month or two after release and started taking forever to get the promotion mission to proc. The Dads liked it, so the bug became a feature.

If it's any consolation, progress is recorded towards your next rank, so you're not actually losing progress on the grind to the corvette.

>>174263323
...which is why Thargoid don't obey this rule, neither do the pirates who spawn on you while you are stuck in the thargoid railroaded sequence

whats the difference between the imperials, feds, and alliance? what do I get from gaining rep with one over another? and is there anything stopping me from getting all three?

which should i go for first

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>>174266715
No, nothing stops you. The benefits are their unique ships...save Alliance.

Fuck the Edward Mahon!

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>>174259085
Interviewing trannies is not good PR fuck the community team fuck Sandy.

>>174266984
so there's no point to the alliance?

also, as i'm currently flying around in a viper, which faction will have more immediate better ships

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>>174267013
Are you an ebil troll downvote bot, anon?

>>174266715
>>174267165
no difference between them besides some lore bullshit, gameplay wise they're the same.
You get ship unlocks, some engi unlocks and system permits out of them, except alliance which does not have any of that because there are no a Alliance ranks because fuck them
nothing stops you frmo getting all 3 except the fact that THE ALLIANCE HAS NO RANKS
First Empire until you get the rank for the courier, its a nice small and fast ship with decent armament for its size and bullshit shields, basically a shittier but faster vulture.
The go full federation because Core Dynamics murderbarges are objectively the best ships... except the corvette which arguably sucks

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>>174266715
federation and imperials have different ships locked to both factions
there's nothing stopping you from leveling one or all 3 at the same time
alliance gets nothing at the moment, ignore them

i reccomend leveling up imperial just for the cutter at the end, though you also get access to the courier and the clipper
feds get the corvette, gunship, dropship and assault ship

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>when you start deleting comments criticising your video and know that the community is going to defend you

>>174235010
what purpose is "rarity"?

Are you gonna actually fly that thing or is it gonna sit in your hangar being glorified flair?

At least you can actually use the carrack for a command ship.

The only possible use this ship might have is large scale ground or base assault ops. Which I doubt anyone will be doing for quite a while.

>>174267704
are you sure he's deleting them and not the spam bot?

>>174267165
Oh, if you want to gain rank faster for Feds join Felicia Winters, for empire Aisling Duvall. They give bonuses to reputation.

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>>174267358
nnhhfff

best ed cockpit bar none

>>174268056
Ben is a SJW so it is likely the community team deleting comments.

>>174268078
...I'm a newfriend, what do you mean by this

>>174268593
Powerplay shit. But you don't want to sign up with Winters. Fuck that bitch. You want to sign up with Grom to get Grom's Dad killing missiles.

>>174269696
dont missles do only average hull damage and basically no shield damage though?

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Is the pain we are suffering waiting for SC to get playable worth it? Will we be ever remembered as the first martyrs of the space sims genre? Will our sons cry in our memory?

Okay let's make this clear. People who own SC shouldn't reply to people who own ED. Beacuse if you do you are tainting both your and their communities. Think before posting and do not mix. It's for your own safety.

>>174270626
this is my concern, Im worried that either I'm gonna be so assmad about SC by the time it comes out that it wont be any fun, or that development will take so long that by the time its out it wont be special anymore.

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>>174270626
Might want to rub some vagisil on that and wait for 3.0. I don't think there's any question that the end result of the Star Citizen project will be worth playing. The only question is the percentage of promises fulfilled in the end. Frankly I'd be happy if we just ended up with Wing Commander: Privateer 3, but there's so much more there.

>>174270946
>the split-the-thread man is back

Hello

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>>174270946
E:D a shit. You're Waifu a shit too.

>>174271206
>You're
Your english is shit senpai

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>>174270626
>waiting for SC to be playable
>not remembering the dogfighting module with lower framerate than the current PU.
>having to explain that the game you downloaded is just a hangar, and no the door doesn't open.
if you experienced that and haven't offed yourself yet, you aren't going to.

>>174270946
Most people own both. I'm here for 3.0, but I'm playing ED in the meantime. Quince is somehow kinda fun swapping between passenger missions and 7 digit massacre missions. I may even continue engineers

The Defender is everything that characterizes a Medium fighter: fast, maneuverable, armed with a heavy loadout, and bred for dogfighting. The Defender is a space superiority fighter best suited for patrol, escort, and raiding missions, only occasionally carrying out offensive missions against enemy starships or convoys. The Banu Defender is not the best-armored fighter in combat, but it makes up for this with it's cargo capacity, allowing it to be used as a trade vessel in times of peace.

>>174271383
Did you forget to put your trip on, Agent?

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Are Renegade Squadron /our guys/?

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>>174271468
Federal dropship or assualt ship? Want to use it for vultering bounties from feds in high resource zones currently in a asp explorer.

>>174271659
Who is that qtie?

>>174271834
Looks like their name might be Amanda.

>>174271659
Before the Evocati chat got moved to Spectrum and I stopped paying attention to it I had to look at their autismal posting all the time. They're a bunch of edgy tryhards.
One of their members was the reason they had to intruduce the 'no PvP in Crusader unless asked to' rule in Evocati because he kept attacking people trying to reproduce bugs. When they asked him to stop in chat he'd go all 'learn to defend yourselves, that's what's gonna happen in the real game as well :^)'.

>>174271934

>assuming xim gender

For shame.

>>174271709
Help mah I don't know witch to get.

>>174271709
assault ship is faster and more agile, better for kill stealing, better at PVE and more noob friendly
dropship is slower and less agile but if properly fitted, tankier and has more firepower

for killstealing bouties I'd use the assault ship, although a vulture is sufficient

>>174271709
>Dropshit.
Better armor, needs less engineering to do ok damage. The sexual assault ship is probably better fully engineered, but the dropshit will get the job done much cheaper.

>>174272181
Only if I knew anything about pleb ships. I went from Hauler straight to Anaconda and then Corvette and Cutter.
Thanks Robigo

I kinda feel fucked in Elite. I exploited Power Play merits with AFK farming a while ago. That got me to Elite in combat and I suck at combat. Now every NPC just wrecks me and I can't kick back and enjoy smaller ships

>>174272240
How much more manuverable is it? Im a decent pilot able to keep up with eagle's in my asp. Witch one has higher survivability? The drops ships higher fire power sounds nice and from what I hear the both have shit shields.>>174272276

>>174272240
>>174272276

What about the gunship?
t. not him but in similar predicament

>>174272887
Not high enough rank or wealthy enough to guy upgrade it or else I would hmmmmmm fighter bay

>>174272795
the FAS is basically a vulture on steroids, except for the shit shields

>>174272887
slow as shit, but fun to learn FAOFF on because dakka

>>174271037
>or that development will take so long that by the time its out it wont be special anymore.
The game industry is literally degenerating right now, they're making fucking card games now. Hearthstone made 500 Million last year. Nobody's going to make something like Star Citizen in the next 50 years.

>>174272795
>>174272887
the dropship can have more outright armor with hull reinforcement than the assault, which can have more outright than the gunship. The gunship can equip a hangar, and has the most dakka, but worst handling. the dropship is better handling, but still worse than the assault.

Dropship is probably most noob friendly due to endless armor with enough hull reinforcement,

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>>174271206
N-NANI~!

>>174273054
this desu

>>174273127
Witch one has the highest jump range while equipped for combat

>>174249681
How can a man be so dreamy?

>>174273784
literally all the same

>>174264482

Hemorrhoid hyperspace tech is way more advanced than human tech and how theirs works is never explained.

NPC pirates are just fucking hax

>>174272685
I don't think combat rank does anything to the difficulty of NPCs, they're just rape machines after the engineers update since they got engineer gear and AI actually capable of landing most of its shots. I miss ships randomly going into retarded barrel rolls where the AI stops responding.

>>174273784
https://coriolis.edcd.io/

click on a ship, build and tweak it how you want.

Why is the Hauler so comfy? Also can it become a semi-viable passenger ship for smaller sized passenger missions?

>>174274102
Hmmmmm I think Imma go drop ship for the hull strntgh and extra firepower then when I get enough money try out the assualt ship as well thanks for the info guys.

>>174270615
Groom' missiles cancel frame shift charging and force the FSD to go through a reboot. And you can do this to your victim repeatedly. They're literally sex for murdering dads.

>>174274267
Yeah I was checking that out think Imma go drop ship for now then try out the assualt when I get enough money to fully deck it out without selling anything or if I hate it just sell it and get assualt thanks for the info.

>>174274335
t. Space Transit.

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Where do I go from Vulture for combat ships? Is the only combat upgrade path through larger ships that handle like huge bricks?

>>174274912
yup

>>174274912
Everything other than the OG Eagle will seem like shit handling compared to the Vulture. FAS and FDL handle alright. FDL has very strong shields and the FAS is a 3k armor ramboat murder fit

>>174275297
B... But I can engineer the Vulture to not have its cockpit blown off every time I go hunting in Haz RES, right?

>>174275494
FAS is on the way to the Corvette I'm grinding out Fed rank for so I'll try it out I guess.

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>>174274335
It's a space van. So you can pretend to be a soccer mom or the A-Team.

I will admit that I gave them money for the A-Team paint job. I'm sorry.

>>174274264
>I don't think combat rank does anything to the difficulty of NPCs

The higher your combat rank the higher the rank of NPCs you will encounter on missions or randomly interdicting you.

Unless you mean their rank has no effect on their effectiveness in which case DOHOHOHOHO

>>174275954
>ship is 50% cockpit
>not getting it blown out in combat

I don't understand the question.

>>174276131
Yeah, AI combat rank doesn't have anything to do with their tactics or abilities, just their damage, shields, and agility. The laziest way to increase AI difficulty, but what else would you expect from Frontier?

>>174276131
I know that it changes mission encounters but I thought it was pretty easy to avoid getting gangraped by dangerous ships.

I've had harmless rank Anacondas that were outfitted with powerplants that couldn't support their guns try to ram me so I have some idea what NPC rank does to their effectiveness.

>>174276283
Can't have the cockpit busted open if I'm not hull tanking.

>>174276096
I always thought of it like the Winnebago from Space Balls.

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>>174276983
The interior view of it perhaps, but the exterior has more in common with a van.

>>174277861
Damn that's pretty aesthetic.

Where can I find ERP on ED? Communication between commanders is possible so I think there should be a place where ERP people gather and share their vile fantasies.

>>174278114
What would the appeal of doing it in ED be?
>I do the sex fuck to you... But it's in space!
Boring.

>>174276906
Meh, my FAS has power to spare for A rated life support and the shield is a shitty biweave just as a buffer for ramming nerds.

>>174277957
If only they put that much effort into the other paint jobs. Well, it wasn't much creative effort since they were just copying the success of the A-Team van, but it's a step up from 99% of their paint jobs where they just use the bucket fill tool to plaster the ship with assorted colors.

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>>174278285
Space Power Fantasy.

People like you are just too boring. The fact you can't figure out anything witty for your post shows how mediocre you are. You probably work as an accountant or in a library.

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>>174278114
try r/healsluts
theres a handful of peoople there who use the healing lasers while ERPing and the addition of multicrew means you can be their gunner or just let them ram you in a SLF
>>174278285
it's all about submitting to a strong CMDR who has more money than you and a huge, powerful ship
dont knock it till you try it

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I wish this game wasn't shit so that shit like pic related would be even cooler.

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>tfw you'll never send a horde of hatch breaker limpets to break into a female commanders cargo hold then travel to the cockpit to rape her into submission and take her as your sex slave

>>174278807
>being a raper
>in april of 3303
useless dreg

>>174278671
>That pic

My sides just reported in from Beagle Point.

>>174278564
I'm a freelance animator and artist for -the videogames- but I'm sure you're so much more creative and interesting for wanting to do erotic roleplay in the most vanilla setting possible.

anyone else think it seems a little unnecessary for them to design dynamic animations to pick things up and put them down however you want?

I understand they are trying to avoid 'gamey-ness' but that seems like one helluva hurdle. If anything it might end up just limiting how much spergs can organize and decorate their merchantmen for selling shit.

>>174280240
>artist/animator
>that means I am qualified to judge the validity of others' ERP or fetish preferences

But anon, no.

>>174280416
They're going to put so much work in to some cinematic immersion uncanny valley crap that people won't care.

People buy video games, to play a video game. Not to look at plastic-faced NPCs pretending to be realistic, and have dozens of ways of picking up cups and sitting at tables.

How many people do you think are going to go on metacritic and give it a good review because of NPC animations?

People need to realise that games are supposed to be fun, not tediously realistic simulators. Running up to a ship and pressing F and appearing in the cockpit is less annoying than watching a boring cutscene of climbing stairs. It takes up less play time too.

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>>174233146

At least they're not on PGI's level.

>we're going to make a PVP game, and we're going to make the dads pay for it

Dad holocaust when?

>>174280710
Not making a personal attack on the sort of sex fuck you want bruh just saying what the fuck would attract anyone to E:D as a setting over the billion other science fiction space settings? Namely ones where you don't fly misshapen uncanny valley subhumans wearing gimp suits around in giant weaponized shoes.

>>174280775
I'm okay with it for the most part, but I'm starting to see it becoming a bit unwieldy.

I'm an old-school Star Wars Galaxies player and one thing that I thought was really neat was when players would deck out their pads with meticulously organized objects just to suit their style. I highly doubt you'll be able to do anything quite as in depth as you could in SWG, but with things like player housing I can see it being super tedious if you have to physically load up, drag and drop each piece of furniture down to every potted plant when it would be easier on both the designer and the player if they could just point and click.

When I heard that the act of removing cargo from ships was going to be something you had to do BY HAND, taking considerable time and it would be possible to hire players or npc's to do said menial task I could only think of how much more this is turning into space fork-lift simulator than a game.

>>174281558
One thing that sounded cool to me was that you can literally get a job in-game at a docking port and transfer cargo from place to place using an ARGO or something like that, and get paid to do it. Like all those rich orgs with Hull-Es that need their cargo loading quickly, you could get paid by them to load stuff on their ship. It sounds kind of comfy to me.

I just don't like all the "realism" crap and pretending like having different ways to pick up cups at a table is somehow going to make the game better.

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>>174281353
There aren't even any aliens but Thargoids in ED, there's no genetic engineering of exotic humanoids, there's no strange creatures lurking behind every rock, asteroid, or planetoid.. All it is for ERP is generic fucking Sci-Fi which you can get anywhere else and better, since you can't even directly control your goddamn Commander. Even fucking Star Craft is a better ERP game than Elite: Dangerous.